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The cartel system of states : an economic theory of international politics / Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197632307; 9780197632291.Subject(s): Borderlands -- Political aspects | Borderlands -- Economic aspects | Territory, National -- Economic aspects | International relations -- Economic aspects | Sovereignty
| State, TheAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197632260DDC classification: 320.12 Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the defining feature of the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the defining feature of the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens.
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